essential reading for Ecology in a Time of Planetary Crisis?

[Elizabeth]

Dear Colleagues:

I'm teaching a graduate seminar called Ecology in a Time of Planetary Crisis this spring, which aims provide a comprehensive view of the overarching socio-ecological trends shaping the state of Earth, and highlights some of the positive actions that people and groups are taking to shift toward sustainability.  Approaches grounded in analyzing and/or shifting worldviews and philosophies are especially appreciated. 

The IPCC report is clearly essential reading. In the past, we've read Kolbert's Sixth Extinction, Balmford's Wild Hope, Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything, Dale Jamieson's Reason in Dark Time.

What's new, exciting, and comprehensive that should be included this spring?  

I will compile the list and share it back to this listserve.

Many thanks for your suggestions -

Elizabeth Allison, PhD

[Juliann Allison]

Hello, 

  What about Dahr Jamail's The End of Ice? It made a huge impact on my students and generation a lot of discussion. 

Best wishes,

Juliann 

Juliann Emmons Allison

Associate Professor, Gender & Sexuality Studies 

Director, Sustainability Studies Major

Most Recent Publication: "Closing the renewable energy gender gap in the United State and Canada: The role of women's professional networking. Energy Research and Social Science 55 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.03.011

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[Elizabeth Chalecki]

If you are looking for someone that will speak truth to power, then definitely consider Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, by Roy Scranton.  It’s a little book, only about 100 pages long, but he makes the case very eloquently that civilization as we know it is already dead.  If we can accept this, then we can use the remaining time to build something for the future that will live.  If your students don’t get angry after reading it, they should probably drop the class.

 

-Beth

 

Elizabeth L. Chalecki, PhD

Asst Professor, International Relations

Department of Political Science

University of Nebraska – Omaha

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